Washington Irving wrote Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 200 years ago, and he has left potential writers with at least two excellent stories for studying masterful storytelling and masterful development of both setting and the creation of characters. In another post, I examined Irving’s use of Setting in his story Rip…
Tag: Character Development
#MemoirFest Day 10: Write about a Colorful or Odd Character that You Have Known
I grew up in a tiny town where everyone just almost everyone else, but no one seemed to know the lady who lived across the street from me, in the house that is colored orange. Every time that I saw that old lady, her eyes cut through me. She had the air of a wounded,…